Aberfeldy Parish Church, Crieff Road, Aberfeldy is a Grade C listed building in the Perth and Kinross local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 9 June 1981. Church. 1 related planning application.

Aberfeldy Parish Church, Crieff Road, Aberfeldy

WRENN ID
tall-rubble-onyx
Grade
C
Local Planning Authority
Perth and Kinross
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
9 June 1981
Type
Church
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

John and G P K Young (Perth), 1884. Plain gothic church with 3-bay aisless nave, transepts and slated fleche. Squared and snecked chlorite-slate rubble with polished ashlar dressings; harl to W. Raised base course. Single- and 2-stage sawtooth-coped buttresses; hoodmoulds, some with label stops. Geometrical- and plate-traceried windows. Voussoirs; chambered reveals, raked cills and stone mullions. Boarded timber doors with decorative ironwork.

E (CRIEFF ROAD) ELEVATION: broad gable with angle buttresses and slightly advanced centre with 3 trefoil-headed lights under continuous hoodmould at 1st stage giving way to large 4-lancet Geometric window with hoodmould and label stops, glazed quatrefoil in stone cross-finialled gablehead.

N (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: tall 2-stage gabled porch projecting to left of centre with angle buttresses, return to left with steps up to doorway with hoodmould, floreate label stops and deep-set 2-leaf door giving way to bipartite window at 2nd stage. 2 plate-traceried 2-light windows with dividing buttress to centre and advanced gable to right with large raised centre tripartite windows and mandorla in gablehead; further single lancet to outer right.

W ELEVATION: broad harled gable with rose window and single stage rubble chancel with single light to canted face of polygonal-roofed bay to centre; further smaller lancet to lean-to bay at left with small 2-leaf door on return to left and similar mirrored bay to right with additional tall shouldered stack (window boarded).

S ELEVATION: mirrors N elevation but with ramp up to single stage porch with broad single leaf door, circular panel in gablehead, lacking hoodmould and with narrow light on return to left; also small additional structure in re-entrant angle to outer left.

Multi-pane leaded glazing with coloured margins and details. Grey slates. Coped ashlar stack; ashlar-coped skews with mitre skewputts. Diminutive triangular roof ventilators with trefoil-detail bargeboarding. Cast-iron downpipes with decorative rainwater hoppers and fixings

INTERIOR: altered. Gallery infilled at ground but retaining cast-iron columns and panelled front. Open timbered roof; some fixed timber pews; carved pulpit and boarded dadoes.

BOUNDARY WALLS: saddleback-coped stepped squared rubble and semicircular-coped rubble boundary walls.

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